News from June 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas man is charged in an eighteen-count indictment unsealed today with removing, altering or obliterating manufacturer’s serial numbers, causing other individuals to make straw purchases of firearms and exporting firearms overseas, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Calvin Duncan, 63, a former Philadelphia Water Department employee, was sentenced today to 24 months in prison and three years of supervised release for a scheme to defraud the City of Philadelphia of more than $1 million. Duncan, of Philadelphia, worked as a mailroom clerk and was responsible...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: The witnesses invited by Ranking Member Pallone, who is an original co-sponsor of the bill, are listed below...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin Peterson today made the following statement after The Commodity End-User Relief Act (H.R. 2289) passed the House of Representatives.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, June 16 at 2:00 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Progress Toward a Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network."
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: Despite repeated claims that the president’s signature domestic policy, Obamacare, has helped to reduce health spending in the nation, the data tells a different story.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) along with Finance Committee member Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Ways & Means Committee member Charles Boustany (R-La.) introduced legislation to prevent the Obama Administration...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Andre M. Brown, aka ‘Paco’, 33, of Columbus, Ohio was arrested this morning by FBI agents in Charlotte, North Carolina. Brown had been a fugitive since October 2014 when he was charged with nine counts in a superseding indictment that related to his role in the Short North Posse. With the arrest of Brown, there are no longer any indicted Short North Posse members at large.
By State Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the Committee will convene a hearing on Tuesday, June 16, at which the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, will testify. The hearing, entitled “Advancing United States’ Interests at the United Nations, " will begin at 10 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: SAN JOSE, Calif. - Jorge Alejandro Sanchez Jimenez, and Francisco Ortiz, were each sentenced today to ten years in prison, for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine, and Macario Jimenez-Corona was sentenced to seven years in prison for attempting to possess methamphetamine with the intent to distribute...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced an agreement with Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler to amend the FCC’s plans to close FCC field offices.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: Co-Leader of Group Dubbed the “Buddy Bandits" Responsible for Eight Robberies in April 2014.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, June 16, 2015, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining H.R. 2646, the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act." Subcommittee members will...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: “I welcome the court’s rejection of this premature legal challenge to EPA’s proposed Clean Power Plan. This is still just a proposal, and we must allow EPA finish its work. When it does, I am confident that we will see that the rule is a reasonable, flexible approach to regulating greenhouse gas emissions...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today released the following statement on the Administration’s efforts in advance of the 2015 wildfire season.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, June 16 at 2:00 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Progress Toward a Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network."
By EPA Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, June 16, 2015, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining H.R. 2646, the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act." Subcommittee members will...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: “I welcome the court’s rejection of this premature legal challenge to EPA’s proposed Clean Power Plan. This is still just a proposal, and we must allow EPA finish its work. When it does, I am confident that we will see that the rule is a reasonable, flexible approach to regulating greenhouse gas emissions...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: Keven Aime, 21, of North Miami, Florida, pled guilty yesterday to one count of possession of fifteen or more access devices with the intent to defraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1029(a)(3) and 2.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 9, 2015
News Release: “I welcome the court’s rejection of this premature legal challenge to EPA’s proposed Clean Power Plan. This is still just a proposal, and we must allow EPA finish its work. When it does, I am confident that we will see that the rule is a reasonable, flexible approach to regulating greenhouse gas emissions...
